PLACE REPRESENTED: Saint Petersburg , Russia

ITEM: Jewellery Box

NOTES: Small Glass ring box, nicely detailed with faux gold to give it that old Imperial Russian look.

Nyen, originally settled by Swedes around 1600 came under the control of the Russians around 1700 and became St Petersburg. In 1914 the name of the city was changed from Saint Petersburg to Petrograd,  in 1924 to Leningrad and in 1991, back to Saint Petersburg. So this trinket is either pre-1914 (which it clearly isn’t) or post-1991 (which it clearly is). It depicts Saint Isaac’s Cathedral built in the mid 1800s and dedicated to dedicated to Saint Isaac of Dalmatia.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1990s

MADE FROM: ceramic material

MADE IN:  unknown

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 6cm  x 6cm x 3cm high